Originally Posted by
SASless
Big difference between dying in battle and being murdered.
The complaint is not the withdrawal....but the manner in which it was done and thus turned into a disaster.
But...as Harry Truman rightfully said (and affirmed by that piece of wood on his desk in the Oval Office). "The Buck Stops Here!". No. matter how you try....Biden owns this....every bit of it. He is the President and he made the decisions that got us to this point. That is unless one is right when it is assumed others are making the decisions for him and he merely rubber stamps them "Approved".
That's some disingenuous BS. It was the nature of the agreement to withdraw (freeing top Taliban leadership, ceasing US airstrikes, setting a hard date for getting out) that led directly to manner of 'how' the withdraw unfolded.
The buck does indeed stop with the President, though I never recall you saying much about the Doha Agreement that led to this debacle when Trump was in charge.